%0 Journal Article
%T Narrowing sex differences in life expectancy: regional variations, 1971-1991
%A Lalu
%A N.M.
%A Trovato
%A Frank
%J Canadian Studies in Population
%D 2001
%I Canadian Population Society
%X English A number of industrialized nations have recently experienced some degrees ofconstriction in their long-standing sex differentials in life expectancy at birth. In this study weexamine this phenomenon in the context of Canada's regions between 1971 and 1991: Atlantic(Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island); Quebec, Ontario, and the West(Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon and Northwest Territories). Decompositionanalysis based on multiple decrement life tables is applied to address three questions: (1) Are thereregional differentials in the degree of narrowing in the sex gap in life expectancy? (2) What is therelative contribution of major causes of death to observed sex differences in average length of lifewithin and across regions? (3) How do the contributions of cause-of-death components vary acrossregions to either widen or narrow the sex gap in survival? It is shown that the magnitude of the sexgap is not uniform across the regions, though the differences are not large. The most importantcontributors to a narrowing of the sex gap in life expectancy are heart disease and external types ofmortality (i.e., accidents, violence, and suicide), followed by lung cancer and other types of chronicconditions. In substantive terms these results indicate that over time men have been making sufficientgains in these causes of death as to narrow some of the gender gap in overall survival. Regions showsimilarity in these effects. French Certains pays industrialis¨¦s viennent de vivre quelques constrictions dans ladiff¨¦rentielle sexuelle de l'esp¨¦rance de vie ¨¤ la naissance. Dans cette ¨¦tude,nous examinons ce ph¨¦nom¨¨ne dans le contexte des r¨¦gions canadiennes entre1971 et 1991 : r¨¦gion atlantique (Terre-Neuve, Nouvelle-¨¦cosse, Nouveau-Brunswick,  le du Prince-¨¦douard) ; le Qu¨¦bec, l'Ontario et l'Ouest (Manitoba,Saskatchewan, Alberta, Colombie-Britannique, Yukon et les Territoires duNord-Ouest). L'analyse de d¨¦composition bas¨¦e sur des tables de survie etd'extinction multiples sert ¨¤ r¨¦pondre ¨¤ trois questions : 1) Existe-t-il des ¨¦cartsr¨¦gionaux dans le degr¨¦ de r¨¦duction de l'¨¦cart de l'esp¨¦rance de vie entre lessexes ? 2) Quelle est la contribution relative des principales causes de d¨¦c¨¨savec diff¨¦rences observ¨¦es entre les sexes dans la dur¨¦e de vie moyenne dans lesdiff¨¦rentes r¨¦gions ? 3) De quelle fa on est-ce que les contributions des ¨¦l¨¦mentsde causes de d¨¦c¨¨s varient selon les r¨¦gions pour ¨¦largir ou r¨¦duire l'¨¦cart desurvie entre les sexes ? Il appert que l'ampleur de l'¨¦cart entre les sexes n'est pasuniform
%K sex mortality differential
%K life expectancy
%K causes of death
%K life table decomposition
%K region
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